Improvement in car-couplings



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` WILLIAM CALLOW, Ir. Improvement in Car-Couplings.

5 NITE i Cars,A the nature'and use of A'rnnr OFFICE.

WILLIAM` eALLoW, Jn., or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

'j lMPRovEMENT IN cAR-couPLlNGs.

Specification forming part of Letters `Patent No. 115,433, dated May 30,1871.

Be it knoWn thatl, `WILLIAM CALLOW, Jr., of Baltimore, in the county ofBaltimore and To all tchomit may concer/n:

` `State of Maryland, have invented a new and Improved Coupling ,andBumper for Railroad which, in the foly lowing specification, Will beclearly and dis-` tHCbly-shown.

The nature of my invention, consists, first, in constructing the bumpersWith solid faces,

e With no openings therein; and, second, in the combination withthebumpers thus constructed, the two chain-connections, arrangedsubstantially as hereinafter set forth.

Having thus set forth the nature of my invention, and to en'ablefothersskilled in the art to makea-nd use the same, I will now pro- `ceed todescribe it, and certify that the accompanying drawing is a correctrepresentation of the same, like letters corresponding With like parts.

\ Description.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the coupling and bumpers as applied tothe cars. Fig. 2 is a side view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a plan.

The dotted lines indicate the position of chains when disconnected..

A is a coupling and bumper secured to the `beams of the carB in theusual Way; G, a

coupling and bumper secured to car D; E, the convexsolid face ofcoupling and bumper i A, strengthened `by ribs or llets F 5. G, face `ofcorresponding` coupling` and bumper, 0,.

strengthened by rib H. J is a bolt passing through the top plate ofcoupling and bumper A, and placed on thewright side When, facing it.Said bolt `J passes throughan eye or ring on chain K, thenj throughbottom plate of coupling and bumper A, and is firmly secured by nut 7con the lower side. The other end of" chain K has an eye or ring, L, toreceive a pin, M, attached to the left side when facing coupling andbumper G. Said pin passes freely through thetop plate, thenthrough theyeye or ring L, and through the bottom plate or coupling and bumper G.On the opposite or right-hand side, facing the coupling and bumper C, achain, N, is secured by bolt P, Which passes'through the upper and lowerplates of coupling and bumper O, andis secured by a nut, p, on the underside. The other end of chain N is provided With an eye or ring, S, toreceive the pin T, which passes loosely through plate of coupling andbumper A, then through ring S, and through thelower plate of saidcoupling and bumper A, thereby connecting it with the coupling andbumper G on one side, While the chain K connects them on the other side,and forming a double'connection.

The cars can be quickly disengaged by removing the pins Maud T.

I do not claim, broadly, the bumpers, they have been used before; but

I do claim- 1. The bumpers A C, constructed .with enlarged solid couver`faces, strengthened by means of ribs F F, and arranged to act in thedouble capacity of coupling and bumper, subv Witnesses: e

'LEROY E. BALDWIN, WILLIAM H. HOWARD.

